USS BOSTON Sail and Rudder Co, Ltd. or Is there life after your boat gets scrapped?
I served in the Navy, a plankowner aboard the USS BOSTON (SSN-703) Decommissioned in 1999 and scrapped in 2002. Now I find myself in the unique cradle-to-grave position of helping to care for its remains at the Buffalo & Erie County Naval & Military Park. All that really remain are the sail and rudder shipped here in 2003 along with a few cleats. I feel like I'm caring for a vessel that met a premature and untimely demise. Now I care for her remains. ...Sort of.
4 Comments:
Hey Bruce,are those dates correct on your header? The 703 was commissioned in 1999 and scrapped in 2001?
Ray, Read it again, it was decommissioned in November 1999 and most of the scrapping was done in 2002.
That is correct!
It was launched in 1980, commissioned in 1982 (January 30th) and sea trials were november/December 1981.
OOpps...I thought I was reading a three year career,sorry.
Wes,see stubby roll...I'm catching on!
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